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66th Congress 
1st Session 


Session 


SENATE 



Document 

No. 81 


Military Occupation of the Territories 

of the Rhine 


MESSAGE FROM THE 


President of the United States 


TRANSMITTING 


AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, THE 
BRITISH EMPIRE, AND FRANCE, OF THE ONE PART, AND GERMANY, 
OF THE OTHER PART, WHICH WAS SIGNED AT VERSAILLES, JUNE 
28, 1919, WITH REGARD TO THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE 
TERRITORIES OF THE RHINE 



AUGUST 23 (calendar day, AUGUST 29), 1919.—Read; referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
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To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith, with a view to receiving the advice and consent of 
the Senate to their ratification, the accompanying treaty with Poland, signed 
at Versailles on the 28th of June; and the agreement between the United 
States, Belgium, the British Empire and France of the one part, and Germany 
of the other part, with regard to the military occupation of the territories of 
the Rhine, also signed at Versailles on the 28th of June. 

This treaty and this convention are ancillary to the treaty of peace with 
Germany, and I am glad to lay them before the Senate now, in order that they 
may be considered, if possible, in connection with that treaty, and also in 
order that they may serve to throw further light upon the treaty itself. 

Woodrow Wilson. 

The White House, August 29, 1919. 

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ARRANGEMENT ENTRE LES ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE, LA BELGI¬ 
QUE, L’EMPIRE BRITANNIQUE ET LA FRANCE, D’UNE PART, ET 

L’ALLEMAGNE, D’AUTRE PART, CONCERN ANT L’OCCUPATION 

MILITAIRE DES TERRITOIRES RHENANS. 

Les Soussignes, agissant en vertu des pouvoirs qui leurs sont confer6s par 
leurs Gouvernements respectifs, ainsi qu’il est prevu a Particle 432 du Traitd 
de Paix signe a la date de ce jour, sont tombes d’accord sur les dispositions 
suivantes: 

Article 1. 

Conformement aux articles 428 et suivants du Traite signe en date de ce jour, 
les forces arrnees des Puissances alliees et assocides continueront P occupation des 
territoires allemands (telle que cette occupation a ete definie par Particle 5 de la 
Convention d’armistice du 11 novembre 1918 et dtendue par Particle 7 de la Con¬ 
vention additionnelle du 16 janvier 1919), coimne garantie de P execution par 
l’Allemagne dudit Traitd. 

Aucune troupe allemande, & Pexception des prisonniers de guerre en cours de 
rapatriement, ne sera admise dans les territoires occup6s, meme en transit; mais 
des forces de police, dont le nombre sera d6termin6 par les Puissances allides et 
associees, pourront etre maintenues dans ces territoires, en vue d’y assurer l’ordre. 

Article 2. 

11 sera constitue un organisme civil, d6nomme Haute Commission interalliSe 
' des territoires rMnans et designes ci-apres sous le nom de Haute Commission , 
qui, & moins de dispositions contraires du Traite, sera le representant supreme 
des Puissances alli6es et associees dans les territoires occupes. 11 comprendra 
quatre membres reprdsentant la Belgique, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et les 
Etats-Unis. 

Article 3. 

(a) La Haute Commission aura le pouvoir d’edicter des ordonnances dans la 
mesure qui sera necessaire pour assurer l’entretien, la security et les besoins des 
forces militaires des Puissances alliees et associees. Ces ordonnances seront 
publi6es par sessoins; les copies en seront enboyees a chacun des Gouvernements 
allies et associ6s ainsi qu’au Gouvernement allemand. 


AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BELGIUM, 

THE BRITISH EMPIRE, AND FRANCE, OF THE ONE PART, AND 

GERMANY, OF THE OTHER PART, WITH REGARD TO THE MILI¬ 
TARY OCCUPATION OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE RHINE. 

The Undersigned, acting under the powers conferred upon them by their 
respective Governments, have come to the following agreement as provided 
for in Article 4B2 of the Treaty of Peace of even date. 

Article 1. 

In accordance with Article 428 and the following Articles of the Treaty 
of even date, the armed forces of the Allied and Associated Powers will continue 
in occupation of German territory (as such occupation is defined by Article 5 
of the Armistice Convention of the 11th November 1918, as extended by 
Article 7 of the Additional Convention of the 16th January 1919), as a guarantee 
of the execution by Germany of the Treaty. 

No German troops, except prisoners of war in process of repatriation, shall 
be admitted to the occupied territories, even in transit; but police forces of a 
strength to be determined by the Allied and Associated Powers may be main¬ 
tained in these territories for the purpose of ensuring order. 

Article 2. 

There shall be constituted a civilian body styled the Inter-Allied Rhine¬ 
land High Commission, and hereinafter called the High Commission, which, 
except in §o far as the Treaty may otherwise provide, shall be the supreme 
representative of the Allied and Associated Powers within the occupied terri¬ 
tory. It shall consist of four members representing Belgium, France, Great 
Britain and the United States. 

Article 3. 

(a) The High Commission shall have the power to issue ordinances so far 
as may be necessary for securing the maintenance, safety and requirements of 
the Allied and Associated forces. Such ordinances shall be published under 
the authority of the High Commission, and copies thereof shall be sent to each 
of the Allied and Associated Governments and also to the German Government. 


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Ces ordonnances auront force de loi et, des leur publication, seront reconnues 
comme telles par les autorites militaires alliees et associees et par les autorites 
civiles allemandes. 

(b) Les membres de la Haute Commission jouiront des privileges et immu- 
nites diplomatiques. 

(c) Les tribunaux allemands continueront a exercer leur juridiction civile et 
criminelle, sauf en ce qui concerne les exceptions contenues dans les paragraphes 

(d) et (e) ci-dessous. 

(d) Les forces armies des Puissances alliees et associees et les personnes a 
elles attach6es a qui les gen6raux coimnandant les armees d’occupation auront 
delivr6 un laissez-passer revocable, et toutes les personnes employees par ces 
troupes ou d leur service, seront exclusivement justiciables de la loi militaire et 
de la juridiction militaire de ces troupes. 

(e) Toutes personnes qui commettront un crime ou un delit contre la personne 
ou les biens des forces arm6es des Puissances allies et associees pourront etre 
traduites devant la juridiction militaire desdites troupes. 

Article 4. 

Les autorites allemandes, soit en territoire occup6, soit en territoire non 
occupe, doivent, sur la demande de tout officier des forces d’occupation dtiment 
autorise, arreter et remettre entre les mains du commandant des armees alliees 
et associees le plus proche toute personne accusee d’un crime ou d61it et qui, par 
application des alineas ( d ) et ( e) de Particle 3, est justiciable de la juridiction 
militaire des forces alliees et associ6es. 

Article 5. 

L’administration civile des provinces (Provinzen ), des gouvernements 
(Begierungsbezirke ), cercles urbains (Stadtkreise), cercles ruraux ( Landkreise) 
et communes ( Gemeinde) restera entre les mains des autorites allemandes et 
Padministration civile de cez zones continuera conform6ment aux lois allemandes 
et sous Pautorite de Gouvernement central allemand, a Pexception de la regie- 
mentation par ordonnances emanant de la Haute Commission et dans la mesure 
ou celle-ci le jugera n6cessaire, conformement a Particle 3, pour adapter cette 
administration aux besoins et aux circonstances de Poccupation militaire. II 
est entendu que les autorites allemandes sont obligees, sous peine de revocation, 
de se conformer & toutes les ordonnances rendues en vertu de Particle 3 ci-dessus. 


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When so published they shall have the force of law and shall be recognised 
as such by all the Allied and Associated military authorities and by the German 
civil authorities. 

(b) The members of the High Commission shall enjoy diplomatic privi¬ 
leges and immunities. 

(c) The German courts shall continue to exercise civil and criminal juris¬ 
diction subject to the exceptions contained in paragraphs ( d ) and (e) below. 

(d) The armed forces of the Allied and Associated Powers and the persons 
accompanying them, to whom the General Officers Commanding the Armies of 
Occupation shall have issued a revokable pass, and any persons employed by, 
or in the service of such troops, shall be exclusively subject to the military law and 
jurisdiction of such forces. 

( e) Any person who commits any offence against the persons or property 
of the armed forces of the Allied and Associated Powers may be made amenable 
to the military jurisdiction of the said forces. 

Article 4. 

The German authorities, both in the occupied and in the unoccupied terri¬ 
tories, shall, on the demand of any duly authorized military officer of the occu¬ 
pying forces, arrest and hand over to the nearest commander of the Allied or 
Associated troops any person charged with an offence who is amenable under 
paragraph ( d ) or paragraph (e) of Article 3 above to the military jurisdiction of 
the Allied or Associated Forces. 

Article 5. 

The civil administration of the provinces (Provinzen), Government depart¬ 
ments ( Begierungsbezirke ), Urban Circles (Stadtkreise), Rural Circles ( Land - 
kreise), and Communes ( Gemeinde), shall remain in the hands of the German 
authorities, and the civil administration of these areas shall continue under 
German law and under the authority of the Central German Government, 
except in so far as it may be necessary for the High Commission by Ordinance 
under Article 3 to adapt that administration to the needs and circumstances of 
military occupation. It is understood that the German authorities shall be 
obliged, under penalty of removal, to conform to the ordinances issued in virtue 
of Article 3 above. 


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Article 6. 

Le droit de requisition en nature et en services, tel qu’il est reglement6 par 
la Convention de La Haye de 1907, sera exerc6 par les armees alliees et associees 
d’ occupation. 

Les charges causees par les requisitions effectu6es dans la zone de chaque 
arm6e alliee ou associ6e, et l’estination des dommages causes par les troupes 
d’occupation, seront determin6es par des Commissions locales composes, par 
egale representation, a la fois de ciVils allemands nommes par les autorit6s 
civiles allemandes et d’officiers allies ou associes, et presid6es par une personne 
nominee par la Haute Commission. 

Le Gouvernement allemand continuera a supporter les frais d’entretien des 
arm6es d’occupation aux conditions fix6es par le Traite. Le Gouvernement 
allemand supportera 6galement les depenses resultant du fonctionnement de la 
Commission et de son logement. Des locaux convenables pour le logement de 
la Haute Commission seront choisis apres avoir consulte le Gouvernement 
allemand. 

Article 7. 

Les troupes allies et associees continueront a occuper sans obstacle les locaux 
qu’elles occupent a present (en se conformant aux stipulations de 1’ article 8 b) 
ci-apres. 

Article 8. 

(a) Le Gouvernement allemand s’engage a mettre a la disposition des 
/ troupes alliees et associees et a maintenir en bon etat tous les 6tablissements 
milltaires necessaires aux dites troupes, ainsi que les ameublements, le chauffage 
et l’eclairage, en conformity avec les r^glements concernant ces mati^res et 
actuellement en vigueur dans les diff6rentes armees susvis6es. Ces dispositions 
impliquent le logement pour les officiers et les homines, les corps de garde, les 
bureaux, les administrations, les 6tats-majors de regiment et quartiers gdneraux, 
les ateliers, les magasins, les hopitaux, les blanchisseries, les ecoles regimen- 
taires, les maneges, les 6curies, les terrains d’instruction, les champs de tir 
d’infanterie et d’artillerie, les terrains d’aviation, les paturages, les magasins de 
ravitaillement et les terrains de manoeuvres, ainsi que des immeubles pour les 
theatres et cinemas et des terrains en quantity raisonnable pour le sport et la 
ryelation des troupes. 


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Article 6. 

The right to requisition in kind and to demand services in the manner laid 
down in the Hague Convention, 1907, shall be exercised by the Allied and 
Associated Armies of Occupation. 

The charges for the requisitions effected in the zone of each Allied and 
Associated army and the estimate of damage caused by the troops of occupation 
shall be determined by local Commissions composed in equal representation of 
German civilians appointed by the German civil authorities and Allied or 
Associated military officers, and presided over by some person appointed by the 
High Commission. 

The German Government shall continue to be responsible for the cost of 
maintenance of the troops of occupation under the conditions fixed by the 
Treaty. The German Government shall also be responsible for the costs and 
expenses of the High Commission, and for its housing. Suitable premises for the 
housing of the High Commission shall be selected after consultation with the 
German Government. 

Article 7. 

The Allied and Associated troops shall continue undisturbed in possession 
of any premises at present occupied by them, subject to the provision of Article 8 
(b) below. 

Article 8. 

(a) The German Government shall undertake, moreover, to place at the 
disposal of the Allied and Associated troops and to maintain in good state of 
repair all the military establishments required for the said troops, with the 
necessary furniture, heating and lighting, in accordance with the regulations 
concerning these matters in force in the various armies concerned. These shall 
include accommodation for officers and men, guard-rooms, offices, administrative, 
regimental and staff headquarters, workshops, store-rooms, hospitals, laundries, 
regimental schools, riding schools, stables, training grounds and rifle and artillery 
ranges, aviation grounds, grazing grounds, warehouses for supplies and grounds 
for military manoeuvres, also theatre and cinema premises, and reasonable 
facilities for sport and for recreation grounds for the troops. 

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(b) Les soldats et sous-officiers seront casernes et ne seront pas loges chez 
rhabitant, sauf en cas d’exceptionnelle urgence. 

Dans le cas ou les etablissements militaires actuels seraient trouv6s insuffi- 
sants ou ne conviendraient pas, les troupes allides et associees pourront prendre 
possession de tout 6tablissement public ou prive avec personnel, s’il leur parait 
convenir dans ce but, ou, en cas d’insuffisance, exiger la construction de nou- 
veaux casernements. 

Les fonctionnaires civils, les officiers et leurs families pourront etre loges 
chez Lhabitant, en suivant les reglements concernant les cantonnement's, 
actuellement en vigueur dans chaque arm6e. 

Article 9. 

Les troupes alli6es et associees ou leur personnel ainsi que la Haute Com¬ 
mission et son personnel ne payeront aucun impot ni taxe directs allemands. 

Les denies de ravitaillement, les armes, l’habillement, l’equipement, les 
approvisionnements de toute nature destines a etre utilises par les armees alliees 
et associees ou adress6s aux autorit6s militaires ou a la Haute Commission ainsi 
qu’aux cantines et aux mess d’officiers, devront etre regus en franchise de port 
et droits d’entree de toute espece. 

Article 10. 


Le personnel employe dans les voies de communication (chemins de fer a 
voie normale ou autres, tramways de toutes sortes, fleuves et canaux, y compris 
le Ellin, routes et rivieres) devra obeir aux ordres qui lui seront donnes par le 
Commandant en chef des armees et associees, ou en son nom, pour des huts 
militaires. 

Tout le materiel et tout le personnel civil necessaires a l’entretien et a 
Lexploitation de toutes les voies de communication doivent etre maintenus an 
complet sur ces voies dans les territoires occupes. 

Les transports de troupes ou d’isol6s et d’officiers, munis d’un ordre de 
transport sur les chemins de fer, seront effectues gratuitement. 

Article 11. 


Les arm6s d’occupation pourront continuer, dans des buts militaires, a se 
servir de toutes les installations telegraphiques et telephoniques existantes. 


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(b) Private soldiers and non-commissioned officers shall be accommodated 
in barracks, and shall not be billeted on the inhabitants, except in cases of 
exceptional emergency. 

In the event of the existing military establishments being insufficient or 
not being considered suitable, the Allied and Associated troops may take pos¬ 
session of any other public or private establishment with its personnel, suitable 
for those purposes, or, if there are no such suitable premises, they may require 
the construction of new barracks. 

Civilian and military officers and their families may be billeted on the 
inhabitants in accordance with the billeting regulations in force in each army. 

Article 9. 

No German direct taxes or duties will be payable by the High Commission, 
the Allied and Associated armies or their personnel. 

Food supplies, arms, clothing, equipment and provisions of all kinds for 
the use of the Allied and Associated Armies, or addressed to the military au¬ 
thorities, or to the High Commission, or to canteens and officers’ messes, shall 
be transported free of charge and free of all import duties of any kind. 

Article 10. 

The personnel employed on all means of communication (railways, rail¬ 
roads and tramways of all kinds, waterways (including the Rhine), roads and 
rivers), shall obdy any orders given by, or on behalf of, the Commander-in-Chief 
of the Allied and Associated armies for military purposes. 

All the material and all the civil personnel necessary for the maintenance 
and working of all means of communication must be kept intact on all such means 
of communication in the occupied territory. 

The transport on the railways of troops or individual soldiers or officers, 
on duty or furnished with a warrant, will be effected without payment. 

Article 11. 

The Armies of Occupation may continue to use for military purposes all 
existing telegraphic and telephonic installations. 



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Les armees d’occupation continueront 6galement a exercer le droit 
d’installer des lignes militaires telegraphiques et telephoniques, des stations de 
telegraphie sans fil et de tous autres moyens analogues de communication qui 
leur paraltront n6cessaires. Dans ce but, elles pourront, sous, recerve de Tap- 
probation de la Haute Commission, entrer dans n’importe quel lieu public ou 
prive et Toccuper. 

Le personnel des telegraphes et telephones publics continuera a obeir aux 
ordres donnas, pour des buts militaires, par le Commandant en chef des arm6es 
alli6es et associ^es. 

Les t61egrammes et messages de ou pour les autorites alliees ou associ^es 
ou la Haute Commission et d’un caractere officiel auront la priorite sur toutes 
les autres - communications et seront exp6di6s gratuitement. Les autorites 
militaires allies et associ6es auront le droit controler Tordre dans lequlel les 
communications seront transmises. 

Aucune installation de telegraphie sans fil ne pourra etre etablie par les 
autorites ou les habitants des territoires occupes sans une automation prealable 
des autorites militaires allies et associ6es; 

Article 12. 

Le personnel du Service des Postes obeira a tous ordres donnes par le Com¬ 
mandant en chef des armies alliees et associees ou son representant, dans des 
huts militaires. Le Service postal public continuera sous la direction des 
autorites allemandes, etant entendu qu’aucune atteinte ne sera apportee aux 
'services postaux militaires organises par les armees d’occupation, qui auront le 
droit de se servir, pour les besoins militaires, de toutes les routes postales 
existantes. 

Les dites armees auront le droit de faire circuler des wagons-poste avec* 
tout le personnel necessaire sur toutes les lignes postal js existantes. 

Le Gouvernement allemand transportera, gratuitement et sans les examiner, 
les lettres et les colis qui pourraient etre remis & ses bureaux de poste par ou 
pour les armees d’occupation ou la Haute Commission et sera responsable de la 
valeur de toute lettre ou colis perdu ou vole par la poste. 


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The Armies of Occupation shall also have the right to continue to install 
and use military telegraph and telephone lines, wireless stations and all other 
similar means of communication which may appear to them expedient. For 
this purpose, subject to the approval of the High Commission, they may enter 
upon and occupy any land, whether public or private. 

The personnel of the public telegraph and telephone services shall con¬ 
tinue to obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied and Associ¬ 
ated Armies given for military purposes. 

Telegrams and messages to or from the Allied and Associated authorities 
and the High Commission and of an official nature shall be entitled to priority 
over all other communications and shall be despatched free of charge. The 
Allied and Associated military authorities shall have the right to supervise the 
fcrder in which such communications are transmitted. 

No wireless telegraphy installations shall be allowed to be erected by the 
authorities or by the inhabitants of the occupied territory without previous 
authorisation by the Allied and Associated military authorities. 

Article 12. 

The personnel of the postal service shall obey any orders given by or on 
behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied and Associated Armies for 
military purposes. The public postal service shall continue to be carried out 
by the German authorities, but this shall not in any way affect the retention 
of the military postal services organised by the Armies of Occupation, who shall 
have the right to use all existing postal routes for military requirements. 

The said armies shall have the right to run postal wagons with all necessary 
personnel on all existing postal routes. 

The German Government shall transmit free of charge and without exam¬ 
ination letters and parcels which may be entrusted to its post-offices by or for 
the Armies of Occupation or by or for the High Commission; and shall be re¬ 
sponsible for the value of any letters or parcels lost. 



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Article 13. 


La Haute Commission aura le pouvoir, toutes ies lois qu’elle le jugera 
n6cessaire, de declarer l’etat de siege dans une partie quelconque ou dans la 
totalite du territoire. Par suite de cette declaration, les autorites militaires 
auront les pouvoirs pr6vus par la loi allemande d’Empire du 30 mai 1892. 

En cas d’urgence, lorsque l’ordre public est trouble ou menacd dans un 
district, les autorit6s militaires locales pourront prendre toutes mesures tem- 
poraires necessaires jDour r6tablir l’ordre. Dans ce cas, les autorites militaires 
rendront compte de ces faits a la Haute Commission. 



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Article 13. 

The High Commission shall have the power, whenever they think it 
necessary, to declare a state of siege in any part of the territory or in the whole 
of it. Upon such declaration the military authorities shall have the powers 
provided in the German Imperial Law of May 30th, 1892. 

In case of emergency, where public order is disturbed or threatened in any 
district, the local military authorities shall have the power to take such temporary 
measures as may be necessary for restoring order. In such case the military 
authorities shall report the facts to the High Commission. 


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Fait a Versailles, le vingt-huit juin mil neuf cent dix-neuf. 
WOODROW WILSON. 

ROBERT LANSING. 

HENRY WHITE. 

M. HOUSE. 

TASKER H. BLISS. 

D. LLOYD GEORGE. 

A. BONAR LAW. 

MILNER. 

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR. 

GEORGE N. BARNES. 

CHAS. J. DOHERTY. 

ARTHUR L. SIFTON. 

W. M. HUGHES. 

JOSEPH COOK. 

LOUIS BOTHA. 

J. CHR. W. SMUTS. 

W. J. MASSEY. 

ED. S. MONTAGU. 

GANGA SINGH MAHARAJA DE BIKANER. 
G. CLEMENCEAU. 

S. PICHON. 

L. L. KLOTZ. 

ANDRE TARDIEU. 

JULES CAMBON. 

HYMANS. 

J. VAN DEN HEUVEL. 

EMILE VANDERVELDE. 

HERMANN MULLER. 

Dr. BELL. 


Pour copie certifiee conforme. 


S. Pichon, 

Le Ministre des Affaires Hr anger es. 


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Done at Versailles, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine 
hundred and nineteen. 

WOODROW WILSON. 

ROBERT LANSING. 

HENRY WHITE. 

M. HOUSE. 

TASKER H. BLISS. 

D. LLOYD GEORGE. 

A. BONAR LAW. 

MILNER. 

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR. 

GEORGE N. BARNES. 

OHAS. J. DOHERTY. 

ARTHUR L. SIFTON. 

W. M. HUGHES. 


JOSEPH COOK. 

LOUIS BOTHA. 

J. CHR. W. SMUTS. 

W. J. MASSEY. 

ED. S. MONTAGU. 

GANGA SINGH MAHARAJA DE BIKANER. 
G. CLEMENCEAU. 

S. PICHON. 

L. L. KLOTZ. 

ANDRE TARDIEU. 

JULES CAMBON. 

HYMANS. 

J. VAN DEN HEUVEL. 

EMILE VANDERVELDE. 

HERMANN MULLER. 

Dr. BELL. 


Pour copie certifiee conforme. 


S. PlCHON, 

Le Ministre des Affaires etrangeres. 


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